Question

Highlight the sources of conflict between national development and tribal development.

Answer 1

• Tribes have paid disproportionate price for the development of the rest of the Indian society 
• National developments started in Nehruvian era involving the building of large dams, factories and mines were undertaken at the cost of dispossessing tribes of their land. 
• The loss of forests, community based collective ownership on which tribal communities depended has been a major blow 
• Heavy immigration of non-tribals threaten to disrupt their culture